44Chapter 4:
While Wyatt was locked in the embrace of his son, Piper and Leo quietly excused themselves and went to tell Paige and Phoebe that they were leaving. When they entered Bianca's bedroom, Piper nearly keeled over in shock. She has never seen such a messy room before, and she raised a teenage son. All around the room was empty bottles; empty packets of cigarettes, used condoms and old take away cartons. And the smell, it was unbelievable.
What shocked her most though was the sight of Bianca being pinned up to the wall by Phoebe, her lips beginning to turn blue. "Phoebe!" She scolded to shock her out of her stupor, sure enough it worked and Phoebe released her hold a little, allowing Bianca's breathing to return to normal. Phoebe glanced around and noticed all of the shocked looks on the faces of her family.
"Don't look at me like that, it wasn't my fault, it was Wyatt's feelings that made me go AWOL, I can actually control myself you know." Everyone just humped in answer, causing Phoebe to scowl at them all. They continued bantering for many minutes. No one noticed Bianca Leaving until they heard the sound of shattering glass in the other room.
Wyatt and Chris were too busy hugging each other to notice the enraged inebriated Phoenix entering the room and staring at them in distain.
"Daddy?" Chris asked as he lifted his head up from its previous position on his shoulder.
"Yes, sweetheart." Wyatt asked as he brushed his fingers through his son's hair and then tucked it behind his ear. He smiled at the look of surprise that flittered across his face at the endearment.
"Can we go swimming?" He asked, totally out of the blue. Wyatt stared at him in shock for a moment and then lifted his head back and laughed heartily.
"Of course we can" he said "Do you have your swimming trunks?" Chris just shook his head no and then looked at the floor. Wyatt stared sadly at the top of his sons head and then said "That's OK, we will go shopping and get you lots and lots of new clothes and toys, would you like that?" He asked.
Chris's head snapped up and he nodded vigorously causing Wyatt to laugh out loud again. Suddenly Chris's actions stopped and he stared at something over Wyatt's shoulder. His eyes widened in fear and he buried his head in Wyatt's shoulder.
Wyatt sensing his sons fear turned quickly, while simultaneously tightening his hold on the child in his arms. What he saw there made him really angry. Bianca was scaring his son! What kind of a mother is she! It was what she did next that caused Wyatt to reach boiling point. She picked up the nearest half bottle of scotch from the table and threw it at the pair of them with all of her might. Without any prompting a shield appeared around Wyatt and Chris protecting them from the flying bottle, the shimmering blue shield that has been one of Wyatt's powers since before he was born was activated as soon as someone threatened his son. What Wyatt really wanted to do at the moment was go over and beat the tar out of the one that threatened his son, but he was preoccupied with the quivering mass in his arms, his son was sobbing uncontrollably thinking that he was going to be hurt again.
The glass smashed against the shield and Chris jumped startled, expecting the hurt any moment. Instead all he got was a comforting rub on his back by his father. "Shhh It's Ok son, I got you. She is never going to hurt you again."
Just at that moment the rest of the family came charging out of the other room and took in the scene before them. Wyatt motioned for Prue, Mel and Pen to come to him, while the rest of the Halliwell members gathered in a circle around the Phoenix. When Prue got near to Wyatt she understood what it was that he wanted her to do. "Chris sweetie?" She said as she began to rub circles into his back. After a few moments Chris hesitantly lifted his head and peered around his father's shoulder to see who was talking to him. "Why hello there cutie? Do you know who I am?"
Chris shook his head at her, but strangely enough he felt like he could trust her. "I am Prue, I am your big cousin, and those two behind me are Mel and Pen, they are also our cousins. What do you say we cousins go along to the park huh?" Chris's terrified eyes brightened somewhat and he lifted his head to look at his dad asking permission.
"Go on Chris, Prue will take care of you and then when you come back we can see about going swimming, huh." Chris nods and then holds out his arms for Prue. She smiles at the cuteness of the scene and then lifts him out of his father's arms, it didn't go unnoticed that Wyatt was reluctant to let go of him, but with an encouraging smile he was persuaded.
"Bye bye buddy." Leo said as he placed a kiss ontop of his head.
"Have fun sweetheart." Piper said as she followed Leo's lead and kissed him on the head.
Wyatt also kissed the top of his head and said. "I will see you in a little while sweetheart."
And with that the four youngest Halliwells left, leaving behind and enraged father, grandfather and grandmother, not to mention great aunts.